Tuesday, February 14, 2006 | by nathan

Valentine’s Day

Here’s how I woke up this morning:

The wireless speaker in the bedroom starts blaring, and at first I am completely unsure what the hell is going on. I start thinking, “Brian must have left it on yesterday and now he’s got music going on the living room tv/computer.”

Then - six in the morning, mind you - then, my wonderful guy walks through the bedroom door with a tray of food, a candle in one of our red candle holders, a rose in a vase, and a mimosa. He is wearing a suit.

I’m rubbing my eyes. “What’s going on?”

“Breakfast in bed.”

I goggle at him for a second. “Huh?”

“It’s Valentine’s Day.”

And he set the tray down in front of me and I ate the delicious breakfast he made me, and we made googly eyes at each other for quite awhile.

There is just no other way to wake up. None.

So I know there is a lot of romance happening today, but I will just apologize to the man-loving population of the world. Sorry, I got the best one. You can claim second best and that is fine with me, or, girls, if you are really feeling competitive and want to claim that you got the best straight guy out there, that’s fine too, I suppose, as long as it is submitted to me in writing.

And just as long as we understand that Brian Stephens is #1 overall. Because I will cut you.